Sydney Sweeney kicks off Stagecoach weekend with duet alongside Bailey Zimmerman as lingerie war heats up
Let's get this Saturday morning started with a report from this weekend's Stagecoach Festival in California where the Great Lingerie Wars of 2026 will be fought with Sydney Sweeney bringing her SYRN brand to the Coachella Valley grounds to win Gen Z hearts.
Based on the social media out of the event from last night, Victoria's Secret executives better call an emergency marketing meeting on Monday morning because there's been a major development. We know that Sweeney has no problem attracting young men. But, can she win the hearts and minds of women who will buy the lingerie?
Uh, take a look at this video from last night where Sweeney was absolutely mobbed by young women at a Stagecoach concert. Those emotions aren't staged. These young women see what those of us with a brain see – Sweeney is a cultural icon that has now resurrected American Eagle and she's officially shaking up the lingerie business.
As I wrote in Screencaps earlier this week, Livvy Dunne, 23, is now collaborating with Sweeney which adds huge credibility within Gen Z consumers. How has Victoria's Secret countered Sweeney in the war for hearts and minds? It went out and signed the WNBA's Angel Reese to model its bras and underwear.
Other big moments from Friday night at Stagecoach included Sweeney flicking underwear into the crowd at a SYRN pop-up saloon and singing a duet with Bailey Zimmerman. Oh, and Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis stopped by the Sweeney party.
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It's been a long week. A trying week. A lack of sleep week, but some of that is because I've been trying to get through the Hulk Hogan Netflix series. The archival footage in that series is phenomenal. We're also lucky that a production crew was following Hulk in 2025 and talking to him for a documentary on his life.
If you get a chance, start watching it. Other than that, it's just a cloudy, chilly weekend here in Ohio. These are the weekends when we get stuff done to set us up for relaxation by the end of May. It's now time to put in the work, get patios cleared off. Get the garage in order and get your head right because next weekend we enter the month of May.
Let's go have an incredible weekend.